{"id":692606,"date":"2026-05-25T02:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692606\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:18:11","slug":"dezi-freeman-inquest-live-the-moment-a-stand-off-between-dezi-freeman-and-police-turned-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692606\/","title":{"rendered":"Dezi Freeman inquest LIVE: The moment a stand-off between Dezi Freeman and police turned deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State coroner Liberty Sanger acknowledged the family members of the deceased who appeared in court or watching a video link, including some of de Waart-Hottart\u2019s loved ones in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Sanger reminded those present that the coroner\u2019s role is not to apportion blame but investigate the circumstances of a person\u2019s death. In this case, it was finding out how and why the officers died, and how similar events could be avoided in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The guard of honour outside the Victoria Police Academy at Vadim de Waart-Hottart\u2019s funeral on September 5.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5b54b1f619fc9487a54222a483e312626a5b8ae1.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>The guard of honour outside the Victoria Police Academy at Vadim de Waart-Hottart\u2019s funeral on September 5.Eddie Jim<\/p>\n<p>The inquest, she said, would likely involve examining the conduct of police in the lead-up to and on the day of the shootings in Porepunkah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI offer my condolences to you all. It\u2019s incredibly distressing to lose a loved one, even more so when the loss is unexpected and sudden,\u201d Sanger told the family members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI acknowledge the grief experienced by Victoria Police \u2026 and police colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extent of their loss is truly unfathomable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State coroner Liberty Sanger acknowledged the family members of the deceased who appeared in court or watching a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-692606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}